The lovely folks at Radio Milwaukee say our city's music scene is one of the best in the nation. Judge for yourself. Attend this year's Radio Milwaukee Music Awards today at Turner Hall. The event features performances from some of Milwaukee's better bands, such as Jaill, Field Report, Juniper Tar, Klassik, and Vic & Gab.

To get you in the mood, here's a bit of Juniper Tar from a recent visit to the Tap studios. | Nov. 28, 2012»Read Full Blog Post

Summerfest officials seemed genuinely shocked when the Journal Sentinel informed them Tuesday that a Marcus Amphitheater show June 26 had been posted on the Violent Femmes website.

But within hours, Summerfest officials had transformed the blind side into a golden marketing opportunity that had multiple media outlets speculating who would be playing the amphitheater with the Femmes on Summerfest's opening day. | March 27, 2013»Read Full Article(7)

The 2013 Live @ Peck Pavilion outdoor series will present weeks of outdoor entertainment at the Marcus Center with acts that range from the sacred steel gospel traditions of The Slide Brothers to the Indian/pop sounds of Red Baraat.

Performances are Tuesday evenings at 7:30 p.m. starting on July 23 and will run through Aug. 27. The lineup includes: | March 27, 2013»Read Full Article

Performances by the trailblazing Kronos Quartet and Pilobolus dance company top the 2013-'14 season announced recently by the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts in Brookfield.

True to form for the Wilson Center, it's a diverse lineup that includes a series of Wednesday matinee shows and the return of free Friday evening outdoor concerts in summer. | March 27, 2013»Read Full Article

The new owner of quirky Koppa's Farwell Foods, 1940 N. Farwell Ave., is keeping the store's name and its Fulbeli Deli menu.

Krishveer LLC is the new owner. Koppa's was opened in 1982 by Vern Koppa, who sold the business to his son Ken and business parter Peter Schmidt in 2003, according to Journal Sentinel files. | March 27, 2013»Read Full Blog Post

Today at noon, the guys at The Disclaimer, a half-hour talk radio show on WMSE-FM (91.7), plan to chat about Dan Bice's recent "No Quarter" column about the increases that Summerfest's CEO Don Smiley has enjoyed in recent years and the process behind it. You can read Bice's column (and the 200 comments) here. You can stream the show, featuring Ryan Schleicher of WMSE, Matt Wild of the A.V. Club Milwaukee and Evan Rytlewski of the Shepherd Express, here.

Later this evening, Milwaukee Film's members-only screening happens at the Oriental at 7 p.m. David Edelstein of New York Magazine described tonight's film, "Cesar Must Die?" this way: "In a scant hour and a quarter it enlarges your notion of what theater and cinema, what art itself, can do — it dissolves every boundary it meets." It's hard to imagine missing that, right? Still, the screening is for members only, folks, and space is limited. If you want in on the deal, email kristopher@mkefilm.org and find out how to become a member. | March 27, 2013»Read Full Blog Post